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L. SAMUEL. REINFORCED PAD FOR SHOES. APPLICATION FILED sEPflfi, 9I2.

l ,1 9%AQ8. Patented. Aug. 15, 1916.

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1n: NORRIS PEI'ERS co., wnsnmamu, I). c.

LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL, 013 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

REINFORCED PAD FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1916.

Application filed September 6, 1912. Serial No. 718,823.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Reinforced Pads forShoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved pad for shoes that is placed onthe bottom of a shoe to form a cushion so that the walking of the personis with less shock than when the shoes are without the pads.

The invention is further designed to provide a pad that can be appliedto a spot where the wearer wears out the shoe quickest, and in this waythe shoes are made to last longer.

The pad is made up of a body portion which is somewhat resilient and isprovided at its edges with a layer or edging, and in some instances,with a set of separated spots, of material that will resist wear morethan the body portion of the pad. In this way the life of the pad isprolonged while its resiliency or compressible qualities are notdisturbed.

The pad is easily made and its construc tion is such that it can becheaply made.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a view showing a receptacle holding the wearing mixture witha set of pads being dipped therein to give the pads a coating on theedge. Fig. 2 is a face view of one of the pads after it is coated, andFig. 3 is a section of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail section with themixture applied toboth a perforation and the edge. Fig. 5 is a view of astraight strip for heels or Soles with notches in one edge filled withthe wearing mixture. Fig. 6 is a heel pad notched and then supplied withwearing mixture. Fig. 7 is a section of Fig. 6.

The pad has a body portion 10 which is of resilient material, such asrubber, felt, in fact any material suitable for the purpose of giving asoft or cushion tread when walking.

In Fig. 1 I show the pad in the shape of a heel pad. The body portion isin the form of a sheet or layer, and these are placed side by side andthen dipped, as in Fig. 1, into a mixture 11 which, when dry, becomeshard and resists wear. When the pads 10 are separated, the mixture formsa hard edge 12 to prevent a quick wearing out of the pad, but is notsufficient in area to affect appreciably the resiliency of the pad. Themixture which is applied to the pad can be composed of a number ofingredients and is preferably made up of a binding agent to adhere tothe pad and also one to hold a hard or good wearing substance. Suchmixtures may be used as cement and sand, cement alone, cement and metalfilings, cement and gravel,

cement and carborundum, cement and hair or cotton waste, glue and sand,in fact any hard gritty substance along with a cementitious ormucilaginous material which will dry hard and secure itself to the pad.

In Fig. 4 I show the perforation and also the adjacent edges of the padcovered with the wear-resisting material.

In Figs. 6 and 7 is a pad notched at its edges, the notches 15 beingwidest at their outer edges and filled with wear-resisting material 16.

I sometimes employ straight pads on heels or soles, such as the pad 17in Fig. 5, which has filled notches 18, the filling being ofwear-resisting material.

In these pads it will be noticed that both sides are alike and theafiixing of them to the shoe is facilitated, as the person applying themneed only fasten them, on either face, by either nails, screws, adhesiveor any other fastening means.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. As an article ofmanufacture, a shoe pad comprising a body portion of cushion material ofsubstantially the same thickness, the edge of the body portion beingprovided with a nonresilient wear-resisting gritty material.

2. As an article of manufacture, a flat sheet of cushion material havingan edge portion made up of a binding agent and a gritty substance.

8. As an article of manufacture, a body In testimony, that I claim theforegoing, portion of cushion material, said body por- I have hereuntoset my hand this 3rd day tion being of substantially the same thickofSeptember 1912.

ness throughout, and an edge section formed LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL. of agritty substance mixed With a binding Witnesses:

agent to hold the substance in a mass and WM. H. CAMFIELD, to cause itto adhere to the body portion. M. A. JOHNSON.

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